University Daily Kansan
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Friday. Oct. 3. 1952
Britain Explodes Own Atom Bomb
Perth, Australia—(U.P.)—Britain successfully exploded its first atomic weapon—apparently a baby A-bomb mounted on a stee tower—today and probably will set off more atomic test explosion within a week.
Shivers to Vote For Eisenhower
Austin, Tex. — (U.P.)—Gov. Allan Shivers of Texas today promised to vote for Dwight D. Eisenhower and thus joined two other southern governors in open revolt against the candidacy of Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson of Illinois.
"I fear that Stevensonism will be Trumanism with a Harvard accent," Gov. Shivers declared in a statewide radio talk Thursday night. He paid $2,000 himself for broadcast time.
Gov. Shivers broke with Gov. Stevenson, Democratic presidential nominee, shortly after Gov. Stevenson was nominated. The Texas governor said then that he could not vote for Gov. Stevenson because the Illinois governor favored federal ownership of the offshore, oil-bearing tidalands.
Gov. Shivers joined Govs. James F. Byrnes of South Carolina and Robert F. Kennon of Louisiana in support of the Republican presidential nominee.
But Gov. Shivers had not indicated whether he would vote for Gen. Eisenhower until his speech Thursday night, when he made the blunt announcement, "I will vote for Texas-born Dwight D. Eisenhower for president of the United States."
Last month the Democratic state convention at Amarillo asked all state officials to vote and campaign for Gen. Eisenhower. Gov. Shivers told the convention it was morally and legally obligated to place Gov. Stevenson's name on the ballot as the Democratic candidate, which it did, but he urged the delegates to vote for Gen. Eisenhower in November.
7 Will Orate In Speech Fete
The first public speaking event of the year will be the 5th annual Forensic review at 8 p.m. Oct. 14 in Strong hall.
Seven persons have been invited by the Forensic league sponsors and officers to make speeches. They are Bill Crews, college junior; Kay Roberts, college junior; Otis Simmons, education senior; Dot Taylor, journalism senior; Ann Ivester, college senior; David Hills, college senior; Bob Ball, college junior, and Dick McGehee, college junior.
*within a week.
The world's 36th known atomic explosion occurred just after 8 a.m. (6 p.m. Thursday CST) in the heart of the isolated Monte Bello islands, some 50 miles off the West Australian coast.
The purpose of the Forensic review, which features "the best speakers in the speech and drama department," is to create interest in public speaking and to inform, Prof. E. C. Buehler, director of forensics, said.
The weapon expoded with a bright orange red flash visible for 60 miles and sent a pillar of smoke believed a mile in diameter soaring more than 12,000 feet.
One student from Germany and two from Chile are doing graduate work in the department of social work this year.
Heidi Cohrs, a graduate student from Hamburg, Germany, is gaining knowledge of behavioral problems of American children that she may use in her work with children in Germany after she finishes her studies at KU.
The atomic cloud took on a Z-shape as it shot skyward. Experts believe wind currents may have changed its shape from the mushroom of previous explosions.
Witnesses 60 miles away said the explosion seemed less spectacular than many of the 32 American atomic explosions. Some unofficial scientific observers said the tremendous heat, which remained long after the blast, indicated Britain has produced a bomb of greater efficiency.
Ground rumblings and air concussion were reported from as far as 150 miles from the test site.
Foreign Students Study Social Work
A physics professor at the University of Sydney said the fact the main atomic explosion was preceded by a smaller explosion also pointed to this conclusion.
Dr. W. G. Penny, British physicist in charge of the operation, watched the explosion by television from the aircraft carrier Campania, flagship of 16 British and Australian warships manned by 5,000 men taking part in the test.
Four types of speeches will be presented during the event.
Australian observers believe more test atomic blasts soon may be touched off in the Monte Bello testing grounds, under the ocean surface or in the air. The tests also may involve guided missiles from the Woomera rocket range on the Australian mainland.
Two students from Santiago, Chile, also are taking graduate work in the department. Odette Riso is in psychiatric social work and Ellana Prada is studying community organization. Both will return to Chile this summer. Miss Riso will work in a hospital for the mentally ill and Miss Prada will teach community organization.
Duncan Sandy, British Supply minister explained in London: "When a report is received, the government will consider what further information can be made public."
Bv JIM BAIRD
As president of the All Student Council, Bill Wilson, engineering senior, hopes to remedy, among other things, what he calls the "communications problem" among organizations at the University.
Wilson Attacks 'Poor Communication'
Certain campus organizations the names of which were withheld, had understood that it was scheduled for the following Friday night, and scheduled open houses accordingly. The parade hurt the attendance at these functions appreciably.
"Communication," says Wilson, is one of the biggest problems we have to cope with here at KU. There are so many different groups each going their own separate way, with no central co-ordinating agency for them, and that tends to cause confusion and conflict of schedules."
the cited as an example the mix-up which resulted when the Nightshirt parade was scheduled for the Friday night before the TCU game.
Wilson indicated that one of his projects as Council president will
"A perspiring attendant takes a nice sterile drink from a safe bottle and then pours it into a paper cup that he has held with his dirty hands on the inside of the cup," he said.
Canuteson Deplores Game Drink Service
Dr. Canuteson said the handling is turning a safe system into a potentially dangerous one.
The system of dispersing soft drinks at home football games took a blast from the head of the University Health service this week.
Dr. R. I. Canuteson termed the sanitary conditions associated with the handling of the soft drinks as "horrible."
200 Attend YWCA Meeting
Nearly 200 women attended the first meeting this season of YWCA last night. Barbara Logan, college junior, and Jeannie McDonald, college sophomore, presented a skit. A social hour followed.
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Meet your friends and enjoy a delicious dinner or a late snack
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BILL WILSON
be to take initial steps toward remedying the communications problem, laying a groundwork from which his successor can continue. Office space in the expanded Student Union is a key point in the program.
There will be enough space when it is completed to provide office space for all or most of the more
important organizations, Wilson said. Instead of having to call or go all the way across the campus to reach someone, it would be possible to contact him at his office during scheduled hours.
Wilson thinks this would help greatly to simplify the communications problem.
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If a student were uncertain of whom to see for something, Wilson added, it would be a simple matter to direct him to the right man or the right office, since either would be at hand in the Union
Wilson also hopes to improve the Council's constitution and bills by eliminating or compromising conflicting legislation now on the books, by removing some unwise pieces of legislation and by clarifying certain parts of the Council's statutes.
One of the hazy and conflicting subjects involves the power of the Student Court to rule in constitutional cases. Wilson has been working on that in conjunction with Kent Shearer, law sophomore, who is chief justice of the court.
This will be Wilson's third year as a member of the Council. During his sophomore year he served as a representative of the engineering school. As a junior he represented the Inter - fraternity council, and won his present position in the general election last spring.
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